Quotes from Hank Green

I think it's vital that we be critical of the things that we love.

Hiring and retaining talent in the tech industry is expensive and vital. Those people have real power over their bosses, especially because it is often fairly easy for them to find work elsewhere, and employee walkouts are terrible PR for these leaders who are often obsessed with their public image.

I have made lots of mistakes. I have had many bad days. I have hurt people and myself.

I found out about Logan Paul in the traditional news.

Anyone can put up a podcast, any application can locate and download it. It's a decentralized, hacked together, open system and, as podcaster and a listener, I think it works perfectly.

It is much easier to hire your 20th person than your 1st.

Don't feel bad about getting someone to click on something if the thing they're clicking on doesn't suck.

I don't want to be one of those bosses... taking credit for phenomena that are out of my control.

My brother and I semi-coined a phrase back in 2007, 'Don't Forget to be Awesome.'

Sometimes I feel like when someone asks me if I believe in God, it's like a blind person asking if I'm black, so that they can put me in the right category.

Humanity is good. Some people are terrible and broken, but humanity is good. I believe that.

Read books. Care about things. Get excited. Try not to be too down on youself. Enjoy the ever present game of knowing.

I think that we rightly spend more time thinking about and criticising the stuff that is really successful, because we want to make sure that we understand all the ways that it is both a positive and negative influence. It isn't always a bad thing.

We shouldn't be ashamed of getting people to click on content that we're proud of.

When I was watching 19 and 20-year-olds go through this, dropping out of college to become famous on the Internet, I saw that it can go well but it can also go poorly, and usually it'll be a mix of those two things.

People sometimes think that a video pops out of my head with no more work than extracting a booger. Every video is a challenge (an exciting one, sure, but a challenge.) Every collaboration is complicated.

The process of seeking fame is a process of seeking dehumanization. You are looking for it. You want it. But you only want the good parts of it. You want the part where people see you as just a collection of positive things and nothing else.

Podcasts are a lovely corner of the Internet.

There is a huge market for interesting content to be made by interesting creators.

People are curious and want to know about stuff.

Teaching is probably the most difficult of all current jobs for an AI to manage. If you don't believe that, then you have never truly taught.

Let's be honest with ourselves, YouTubers click on the trending tab for one single reason... to analyze what is on the trending tab and then complain that it isn't what we think it should be.

Everyone talks about how the anonymity of the Internet allows people to behave badly, but I think it's the other way around, that the anonymity removes the 'self' from the people we're talking to online. Other people lose their humanity in our eyes. The system is set up to dehumanize.

There's nothing more dangerous than a powerful person who is imagining themselves as being powerless.